scholarly journals Constraints in Film Making Processes Offer an Exercise to the Imagination

Seminar.net ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Philipsen
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Video Clip ◽  
Lars Von Trier ◽  
Fostering Creativity ◽  
Film Making ◽  
Flow Experiences ◽  
Great Relief

What does the use of constraints offer filmmakers? A screenwriter from The National Film School of Denmark suggests: “I love constraints [..]. I think that’s a great relief, because it offers an exercise to your imagination” (Philipsen 2005: 211). This article hopes to illuminate methods for fostering creativity based on two case studies from The National Film School of Denmark and The Video Clip Cup 2007. In scrutinising these studies I intend to describe what seems to best facilitate flow experiences in film making, and I reflect upon what "individual, team, and institutional scaffolding" can offer a creative film making process as educational techniques. I will outline elements essential to getting into the flow of the film process through the help of constraints and collaboration. Moreover, I focus on the consequences of authorial action. And finally my findings are applied to the work of two professional Danish film makers, Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth.

scholarly journals The Observers Observed: 'Reflections on making a film, The Day War Broke Out, with the Mass Observation Archive' by three PhD researchers

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Chappell ◽  
Simon King ◽  
Dominique Baron-Bonarjee
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Training Course ◽  
Historical Objects ◽  
Single Voice ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Open Dialogue ◽  
The University ◽  
Film Making ◽  
Reflective Narrative

Elizabeth Chappell, Simon King and Dominique Baron-Bonarjee made a film, The Day War Broke Out, in the summer of 2019 as part of a CHASE film making training course led by film-maker Karen Boswall at The University of Sussex. The film focuses on the way in which the Mass Observation (MO) Archive came about. The film brings to life the materiality of the archive through voice, music, hand-written letters, historical objects and setting as well as through an interview with one of Mass Observation’s curators, Kirsty Pattrick.   But what can we understand from the stated intentions of MO’s founders for anonymous volunteer contributors to write diaries ‘so that their [the public’s] environment may be understood and thus constantly transformed.’? This article takes the view that the ‘single voice’, i.e. in this case the personal reflective narrative, can offer a ‘way in’ to understanding collective lived experience. Exploring the research questions through three case studies, it offers a dialogical approach to the parallel and overlapping questions of how past lived experience can be brought to life on film as well as how researchers can use materiality to access the context of lived experience. It asks, how does the creative exploration of the archive through film offer the possibility of a more open dialogue to occur between researchers and curators? And finally, how can film making open up new vistas and avenues for researchers to share findings as well as to transform their own field of research?

Perspectives of Public Pedagogy in Christopher Nolan’s Cinema. Case Studies on Inception and the Dark Knight Rises

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 279
Author(s):  
Christopher Nolan Aletras ◽  
D. Mouzaki ◽  
M. Sagri
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Public Pedagogy ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Public Behavior ◽  
Film Making

The educational and pedagogical impact of cinema is investigated through two popular Christopher Nolan’s films Inception and The Dark Knight Rises. Analysis of his films, in the context of cinema public pedagogy, shows that Nolan’s way of film-making defines a specific set of challenging and reversing messages, hidden behind the Hollywood mainstream standars. Moreover, throughout this analysis, the power of the public pedagogy of the cinematic medium is established, and cinema is approached as a powerful tool that sets the standards of private and public behavior by combining entertainment and politics, according to [Giroux, 2008]. We end up in suggesting that the public pedagogy of cinema be embedded in the educational system as a distinct educational tool.

Studying Early and Silent Cinema

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Withall
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Industrial Change ◽  
Silent Cinema ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
Detailed Case ◽  
Film Making

In this introduction to early and silent cinema, which is currently enjoying a renaissance, both academically and in the popular imagination thanks to The Artist, the author provides both a comprehensive chronology of the period until the birth of sound and also a series of detailed case studies on the key films from the period—some well-known (including Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, Eisenstein's Strike and Chaplin's The Kid), some perhaps less well familiar (including Murnau's The Last Laugh and Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates). As well as covering in detail the major film-making figures and nations of the period, the book also provides insights into the industry in less well-documented areas. Throughout, the films and film-makers are placed in the context of rapid worldwide industrial change.

scholarly journals Decoding Tableaux Vivants: the Metareferential Potential of Painterly References in Cinema

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-116
Author(s):  
Cristian Eduard Drăgan
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Specific Technique ◽  
Referential Process ◽  
Broad Definition ◽  
Peter Greenaway ◽  
Lars Von Trier ◽  
Tableaux Vivants ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Tableau Vivant

Abstract The article focuses on the intermedial relationship between cinema and painting, viewed as a self-referential process, and tries to determine various ways in which this type of signifying process can be used to “encode” various messages (within the work itself), or become an integral part of this (meta)communicative operation. Starting from a broad definition of intermedial references and continuing with a brief recontextualized detour through Gérard Genette’s taxonomy of transtextual instances, the author narrows down a specific technique that exemplifies this type of “codifying” procedure, namely the tableau vivant. In accordance with Werner Wolf’s proposed terminology, he attempts to determine the metareferential potential of this extra-compositional self-referential technique. The case studies focus on films by Peter Greenaway and Lars von Trier.

‘The shit just got real’: Parody and National Film Culture inThe StrikeandHot Fuzz

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-60
Author(s):  
Neil Archer
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
First Century ◽  
Film Culture ◽  
National Cinema ◽  
Cultural Frameworks ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Important Approach ◽  
Productive Function ◽  
Film Making ◽  
Film Viewing

This article argues for the productive function of parody within British film-making, both as an aesthetic strategy for wider distribution, but also as an important approach to the depiction and construction of a national film culture. Going against the conception that parody in the British context negatively signifies what British film is not (in this case, Hollywood), and implicitly asserts a more authentic model for a national cinema (typically, realism), the article argues for parody's value as a mode of representation, particularly within the broader contexts of globalisation. Using the Channel 4 film The Strike (1988) and Working Title's Hot Fuzz (2007) as case studies, it shows parody as responding in specific ways to distinct and changing circumstances of film production, film viewing and British film culture's relationship to Hollywood. The article argues that The Strike's negative uses of parody, while seemingly aligned with an anti-Hollywood discourse pertinent to its contexts, disavows both its own resistance to realism and its own playful use of popular generic modes. Meanwhile, Hot Fuzz, though superficially employing the same approach, can be seen to offer a more nuanced reflection on the limitations and possibilities of ‘national film’ in the early twenty-first century, both as discourse and product. As the article concludes, uses of parody in both texts bring into focus ways of reconciling industrial and cultural frameworks for national cinemas, especially within an increasingly globalised economy.

Building Reputations: The Careers of Mary Field, Margaret Thomson and Kay Mander

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 498-517
Author(s):  
Sarah Easen
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
The Many ◽  
Film Making ◽  
The Impact

Film historians have generally concentrated their research of British non-fiction film-making on the male directors and producers of the British documentary movement. This has resulted in the marginalisation of those operating in other non-fiction genres, in particular the many women documentarists who worked on educational, instructional, travel, commercial, government and industrial films from the 1930s to the 1970s. This article examines the histories of three women documentary film-makers to assess why women are frequently missing from the established accounts of the genre and argue for their inclusion. It provides an overview of women in British documentary histories, followed by case studies of three women who worked in the sector: Mary Field, Margaret Thomson and Kay Mander. It investigates their collegial networks and considers the impact of gender discrimination on their careers in order to understand why they have received so little recognition in histories of the British documentary film movement.

scholarly journals Fostering creativity through co-design and making: Case studies of makerspaces in the UK

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ni Minqing ◽  
Sophia De Sousa ◽  
Youngok Choi ◽  
Busayawan Lam ◽  
Xi Chen
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Fostering Creativity ◽  
The Uk

Corporate Sustainability: Challenge to Managerial Orthodoxies

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dexter Dunphy
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
Sustainability Management

ABSTRACTThis paper addresses the issue of corporate sustainability. It examines why achieving sustainability is becoming an increasingly vital issue for society and organisations, defines sustainability and then outlines a set of phases through which organisations can move to achieve increasing levels of sustainability. Case studies are presented of organisations at various phases indicating the benefits, for the organisation and its stakeholders, which can be made at each phase. Finally the paper argues that there is a marked contrast between the two competing philosophies of neo-conservatism (economic rationalism) and the emerging philosophy of sustainability. Management schools have been strongly influenced by economic rationalism, which underpins the traditional orthodoxies presented in such schools. Sustainability represents an urgent challenge for management schools to rethink these traditional orthodoxies and give sustainability a central place in the curriculum.

Short-Form Application of the Screening Test of Spanish Grammar and the Northwestern Syntax Screening Test to Latino Children

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 220-235
Author(s):  
David L. Ratusnik ◽  
Carol Melnick Ratusnik ◽  
Karen Sattinger
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Screening Test ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Latino Children ◽  
Data Application ◽  
York Metropolitan Area ◽  
Multiple Regression Technique

Short-form versions of the Screening Test of Spanish Grammar (Toronto, 1973) and the Northwestern Syntax Screening Test (Lee, 1971) were devised for use with bilingual Latino children while preserving the original normative data. Application of a multiple regression technique to data collected on 60 lower social status Latino children (four years and six months to seven years and one month) from Spanish Harlem and Yonkers, New York, yielded a small but powerful set of predictor items from the Spanish and English tests. Clinicians may make rapid and accurate predictions of STSG or NSST total screening scores from administration of substantially shortened versions of the instruments. Case studies of Latino children from Chicago and Miami serve to cross-validate the procedure outside the New York metropolitan area.

Case Studies for Telepractice in AAC

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Rose Curtis
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Eye Gaze ◽  
Cognitive Impairments ◽  
Perceived Barriers ◽  
Computer Experience ◽  
Access Methods ◽  
Complex Communication Needs ◽  
Barriers To Service ◽  
Communication Needs

As the field of telepractice grows, perceived barriers to service delivery must be anticipated and addressed in order to provide appropriate service delivery to individuals who will benefit from this model. When applying telepractice to the field of AAC, additional barriers are encountered when clients with complex communication needs are unable to speak, often present with severe quadriplegia and are unable to position themselves or access the computer independently, and/or may have cognitive impairments and limited computer experience. Some access methods, such as eye gaze, can also present technological challenges in the telepractice environment. These barriers can be overcome, and telepractice is not only practical and effective, but often a preferred means of service delivery for persons with complex communication needs.

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